Any person having in his possession information necessary to carrying out the purposes of this article, who fails or refuses to furnish such information to the state agricultural commission upon proper request by the commissioner of agriculture, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution. Any county or state official who fails or refuses to collect or compile for the state agricultural commission such information as he is required by this article to collect and compile, when properly requested by the commissioner of agriculture so to do, and who is supplied with proper blanks for collecting and compiling the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and costs of prosecution.
Source: L. 19: p. 634, § 6. C.L. § 441. CSA: C. 84, § 13. CRS 53: § 6-2-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 6-2-4.